This article by Heather does her typically thorough job of asking all the right questions. But of course even people as conservative as Captain Ed buy into the impossibility of illegals being deported. Captain Ed: We cannot possibly forcibly deport 12 million people, and they won't leave the US voluntarily unless we make America a worse place in which to live even without a job than Mexico ... and who among us would want to turn our country into that kind of misery? Captain Ed is an ally in our fight to uphold our laws on immigration but when even he buys into the arguments of the Pro Illegals right to remain we have problems.

The Pro Illegal political bloc wants to conjure up all sorts of unfortunate pictures in our collective minds eye. Can anyone forget the picture of Elian

being forcibly ripped from his family's hands by Agents of Janet Reno. Opponents of efforts to stop illegal immigration want to conjure up the ugliest pictures in our minds so that they can continue to take advantage of people who have no more rights than slaves in our workplaces.

That is the issue. Our enforcement should begin with the employers by arresting and giving jail terms to those who knowingly hire illegals. And yes there are a bunch of them. If we were to make it a lot harder to hire what amounts to slaves by employers illegal immigration would cease. Employers costs of hiring people they believe they can take advantage of, by paying them less and most importantly not insuring, should rise to such a degree that none of them are willing to take the chance.

As it stands right now we have a permanent underclass of sub citizens who are kept in that position by cynical and manipulating politicians who feign compassion but force slavery upon people fleeing terrible conditions. They are kept in near slave quarter conditions by the very fact that they are illegal. We must break the cycle of the slavery of low wages and no insurance perpetuated by a band of cynical politicians who use the worst sorts of tactics to keep an entire people down on the farm. When President Bush insinuates that those of us who want strong enforcement of our laws are racists he is merely protecting the rights of farmers, meat packers and others to violate our wage laws and workplace insurance laws to save nickels and dimes. We must finally realize that we are not helping illegals by buying into the nonsense of the Pro Illegals.

We must insist at the point of a law that everyone employed be a legal citizen. This is the only way to insure that they are treated in accordance with our laws. So as to not reward those who have already broken our laws we must insist that they return to their countries to apply for a workers permit to re-enter our country. There is no reason at all for limiting those who would come into our country to work. But they must come in such a way as to allow our laws to protect them in our cities and workplaces.

In the end we are a nation of laws. When we turn a blind eye to violations of laws we disagree with, as our President has done, we weaken the very fabric of our great nation. Finally to win this argument we must turn away from demonizing illegals. Yes they have broken the law but when the blame is apportioned we should lay most of the fault for allowing this tragedy at the feet of our feckless politicians who used and abused them. Because who among us would not violate a law that was not being enforced to feed our families?
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